Main entry:

Hans Haacke (M.I.T. Press)

Title & Author:

Hans Haacke / edited by Rachel Churner ; essays and interviews by Jack Burnham, Edward F. Fry, Walter Grasskamp, Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Leo Steinberg, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rosalyn Deutsche, Luke Skrebowski, Sam Durant, and Jack McGrath.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

October files ; 18

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hans Haacke : wind and water sculpture (1967) / Jack Burnham -- Introduction to the work of Hans Haacke (1971) / Edward F. Fry -- An unpublished text for an unpainted picture (1984) / Walter Grasskamp -- A conversation with Hans Haacke (1984) / Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, and Rosalind Krauss -- The antidote (1986) / Yve-Alain Bois -- Some of Hans Haacke's works considered as fine art (1986) / Leo Steinberg -- Hans Haacke : memory and instrumental reason (1988) / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Property values : Hans Haacke, real estate, and the museum (1986/1996) ; The art of not being governed quite so much (2006) / Rosalyn Deutsche -- All systems go : recovering Hans Haacke's systems art (2008) / Luke Skrebowski -- Hans Haacke : the power that artists have (2010) / Sam Durant -- Processing blood and soil : the biopolitics of Hans Haacke's Der Bevölkerung (2014) / Jack McGrath.

Summary:

For five decades, the artist Hans Haacke (b. 1936) has created works that explore the social, political, and economic underpinnings of the production of art and the system of exchange between museums and corporations. His works make plain the hidden and not-so-hidden agendas of those-from Carrier to David Koch-who support art in the service of industry; his work also exposes such inconvenient social and economic truths as the real estate holdings of Manhattan slumlords and the attempts to whitewash support for the Nazi regime, apartheid, or the war on terror through museum donations. This book gathers interviews, difficult-to-find essays, cornerstones of institutional critique, and new critical approaches by writers Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jack Burnham, Rosalyn Deutsche, Leo Steinberg, and others. Haacke's 1971 Guggenheim exhibition was famously canceled when the artist refused to withdraw several proposed works, including one exposing the business dealings of a Manhattan real estate company. This volume includes curator Edward Fry's long-suppressed catalog text for that show (for which he was fired), as well as Walter Grasskamp's "An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture," redacted from an exhibition catalog in 1984 because of statements about the German collector Peter Ludwig. Other essays consider such topics as Haacke's controversial commission for the Reichstag; the activation of the spectator, from Condensation Cube to the Polls; the conceptual continuity of his practice with regard to General Systems Theory; and his delayed and problematic reception in both the United States and Europe. With contemporary essays and scholarly reassessments, this collection serves as an essential guide to critical thinking on Haacke's artistic practice, from the works of the 1960s that engage with physical and biological systems to his later interrogations of the social and economic underpinnings of art.

ISBN:

9780262029544 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262029545 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262527934 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262527936 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Haacke, Hans, 1936- Criticism and interpretation.
Haacke, Hans, 1936-
Haacke, Hans 1936-

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Churner, Rachel, editor.
October files ; 18.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290712
Call No.: BIB 233845
Status: Available